Chairperson: Ron Carnegie

Goals:

• To provide a support network for practitioners of first-person interpretation.
• To promote high standards of quality for first-person interpretation.
• To provide a clearinghouse for techniques, advice, employment opportunities, and resources.
• To meet as an ALHFAM PIG and conduct pre-conference workshops or sponsor sessions at Annual and Regional ALHFAM meetings, as well as independent First-Person retreats.
• To organize a network of independent contractors and museums so both types of agencies can locate appropriate talent for their projects.

Methods:

• The committee disseminates its lists, guidelines, and resources via the ALHFAM Web Page (www.alhfam.org), electronic mail, regular mail, and the ALHFAM Bulletin.

Current Activities:

• We are compiling a list of sites which present first-person programs regularly. This will be posted as soon as it is available

Resources:

• Past into Present: Effective Techniques for First-Person Historical Interpreters. University of North Carolina Press, 1998. by ALHFAM member Stacy Roth.
• Three page summary of 1997 ALHFAM pre-conference workshop, The Freelance Interpreter: Issues, Audiences, Marketing & More. 1997 ALHFAM Annual Meeting Proceedings, Vol. XX, Pages 255-257.
• ALHFAM Proceedings especially Vol. XXII, 1999 FPIPN pre-conference workshop papers, pages 70-75,112-14, 121-124.
• Papers from 2000 will be available when published.

If you are a member of ALHFAM and would like to join FPIPN (we pronounce it "pippin," like the apple; the "F" is silent), please send your name, address, institutional affiliation (if any), telephone number, email address, and a short description of your first-person interests to Ron Carnegie.

If you would like to join the FPIPN Yahoo Discussion Group the link is http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FPIPN/

Please feel free to send personal and site literature for referrals. Also, please indicate if you would like to take an active role in the FPIPN as part of our working committee. We pride ourselves that participation is open to all who wish to take an active part in the work of the committee. Though we are far apart in terms of distance, we find ways to spread the work. If you would like more information on ALHFAM offerings, publications, and membership, visit About Us

The ALHFAM PIG FPIPN, First-Person Interpreters’ Professional Network retreat was just held in Mystic, CT. 

Geo. Chapman Memorial
FPIPN Retreat 2010

Friday 29th - Sunday 31st January 2010
Mystic Seaport
Mysic, CT

To see the program Click Here.